EA Reveals Need for Speed: Shift PC Requirements

BY Mufaddal Fakhruddin | POSTED: 08 September 2009

The new Shift in the franchise not without its SecuROM failures.



EA chose to reveal today the system requirements of its soon-to-be-releasing Need for Speed: Shift. They are:

Need for Speed: Shift Minimum System Requirements

Required – Internet Connection
OS - Windows XP (Service Pack 3) or Windows Vista (Service Pack 1) / Windows 7
Processor – Intel Core 2 Duo 1.6 GHz or faster
Memory – XP: 1 GB RAM; Vista/Windows 7: 1.5 GB RAM
Hard Drive – 6 GB DVD Drive - 8 SPEED
Video Card – 256 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 3.0*
Sound Card - DirectX 9.0c compatible
DirectX - DirectX 9.0c compatible
Online Multiplayer – 512 Kbps or faster; 2-12 Players
Input - Keyboard, Mouse
Optional – USB Steering Wheel / Dual Analogue Gamepad

*Supported Video Cards: ATI Radeon X1800 XT 512MB or greater; NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT 256MB or greater. Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported. Updates to your video and sound card drivers may be required.

Despite what the requirements say, an internet connection is not mandatory to play the game. The game will use a disc-check only SecuROM without it having to verify online. Sounds a little less annoying, let's hope it's not at all.